TITLE:
D-BUS Session Bus Hijack Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA14119

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/14119/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Hijacking

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
D-BUS 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/4599/

DESCRIPTION:
Daniel Reed has reported a vulnerability in D-BUS, which can be
exploited by malicious, local users to hijack a session bus.

The problem is that a malicious user can connect to another user's
session bus. This can be exploited using dbus-send by specifying the
bus address in the "DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS" environment variable.

SOLUTION:
The vulnerability has been fixed in the CVS repository.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Daniel Reed

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2436

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